Beaverdale kicks off season of fall fun

The annual “Beaverdale Fall Festival” starts Friday with a carnival, sidewalk sales, live music by Mike Aceto, Lesson 7, Sons of Gladys Karvitz and others, plus fireworks. The carnival continues Saturday along with a parade, which starts at 10 a.m. and follows Beaver Avenue; an arts and craft fair; and music by Secondary Grey, Brian Holtz, The End and others.

Symphony opens season with Yakushev

The Des Moines Symph­ony kicks off its 76th season with the all-Russian program “From Russia With Ilya.” Joseph Giunta will conduct a group of musicians, including Russian pianist Ilya Yakushev, as the symph­ony performs Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.

Repertory Theater of Iowa stages Wilde

7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Des Moines Social Club, 400 Walnut St. Additional performances through Sept. 29. $12-$25 at www.midwestix.com.

Repertory Theater of Iowa performs Oscar Wilde’s classic “The Importance of Being Earnest,” in which a well-known man maintains a second identity as his own brother, which can never end well.